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AN GAODHAL.
Bhí Epistle ordha Pheadair ann,
Agus Phóill ann mar é
Do sgríobh i g-cóir gach parable
Dorb ól doib é.
Taisbeanta air tarraingireacht a
Naoimh Eoin do ghradhuig an charthanacht
Nar' thug géill riamh fós do Racaireacht
'Ná Raidhte béil.
Bhí liaigh an chuirp 's an anama
An Scriptúir diadha, beannuighthe,
An Tobar Deachta eagnaidhe
In a n-dearnadh é
Bhí dlíghe cheart Mhaois budh bheannuighthe,
Gur chlaoidheadh Pharaoh malluighthe,
Gur thráigh roimh é * an fhairge b
Mar bántaibh reigh,
Bhí sean-ráidhte Shollamh gasda, glic',
Mac Dhaibhí, an té
Chuir deamhan an áir go soithigh glainne
I lár an lae.
Leabhartha chrithe Pharthais
Agus Dochtúir áluinn Gallagher c
Agus Eochair-Sgiath an aifrinn
Budh bhreágh le léigheadh.
Bhí mórán Éireann leabhartha (books)
'Nár aithreas díobh am' labhartha (words)
Leabhar na luibheanach a m-beannuighthe d
Budh bhreághtha faoi 'n spéir.
An feirmóir b áluinn gasda, glic,
Do chuireadh a shíol go blasda, ceart e
Thug ruadh-chnoic fraoighe a's aitin
Go geal bánta féir.
Scuirim as mo labharta
Gidh gur chrádar mé
A's nach g-cuirfeadh aon-nidh air fairge
Go bráth lem' ré.
Moladh le rígh na bh-flaithios ngeal
Mo shlainte 'rís do chasadh orm
'San fhuireann f úd ó'n anfaidh
Gan báth, theacht saor.
a the Apocalypse of St. John.
b the Red Sea. c, Bishop Gallagher,
author of the Irish Sermons.
c a work of Keating's now in the Roy¬
al Irish Academy.
* we would say roimis.
d simples. b feilmhóir.
e some work on agriculture.
f here a boat's crew. They were not
drowned but the ship was broken.
As the Soxon and the “Scotch-Irish elements
tenaciously persist in trying to slight the Irishman
they challenge, Who and What are They? We
shall satisfy them out of the mouths of their own
historians, —
Q Who are the Anglo-Saxons ?
Ans. They are the descendants of Hengist and
Horsa, two Saxon pirates who infested the North
Sea, in the Fifth Century; were hired by the petty
king of Kent to repel the Caledonian Picts ; which
kingdom, by the aid of their piratical companions,
they conquered for themselves, and, ultimately, all
England.
Q. What was the social condition of this people?
Ans. Brutish and savage, and so devoid of intel¬
lect that during their 700 years' sway in England
they were unable to formulate a language or liter¬
ature,
— Spalding.
Q. Who are the Scotch (properly, Scots)?
Ans. A Tribe of Irish Scots who passed over in
the 6th Century,
— Cornwell.
We cannot accuse our degenerate Scottish breth¬
ren of low extraction, but we ask them When did
the river rise higher than its source?
Q. Who are the Irish ?
Ans They are the leading branch of the great
Celtic Race which inhabited Scythia, the cradleland
of the human race ; emigrated thence and, after
journeying in Egypt and Spain for some time, land¬
ed in Ireland 1600 years B. C., and in honor of
their mother, Scota, daughter of king Pharaoh, call¬
ed the island Scotia, a name which it continued to
bear up to the 12th Century, when it was transfer¬
red to Scotland, Scotland being called since its
conquest by them in the 6th Century, Scotia Mi¬
nor (Little or lesser Scotland.
Q. What was their social condition ?
Ans. The Irish were the most learned and civil¬
ized people in Europe, having continued in the
footsteps of their immediate ancestor, Gael, whose
eminence as a scholar gained him Pharaoh's friend¬
ship and daughter in marriage. The Irish were so
learned that their bitter enemy, Spalding, was
forced to record, “Ireland contained more learn¬
ing than could have been collected from the rest
of Europe."
We call on the Irish-American press to publish
the above historical facts as standing matter, and
thus show the world who and what their enemies
are. We have no personal enmity to any man or
party, but the parties to which we refer are not so
with us, a fact which their antics through the Uni¬
ted States for the last two months make plain to
the most casual observer.
We call on our Hibernian friends to make an or¬
ganized effort to keep this evidence of the social
superiority of their race before the public.
* It was the Normans who formulated the En¬
glish language 200 years' after their conquest of
the country.
Professor O’Growney is doing his part well in
Maynooth College, having all the classes studying
the language.
A Gaelic class has been established in St. John's
College, Waterfod.
Send 60 cents for the Gael.
